Sentence examples for communes passed from inspiring English sources

These communes passed because of the Great Depression and were subsequently discouraged by the communist government for being a relic of feudal China.

But if you see me at these events, and I am wearing the red dress, you'll know I'm wearing it to remind myself that the time for solitary communing has passed.

In eastern European Communist countries shooting rights theoretically passed into the hands of the communes, but in practice the rights are often let to organizations, sometimes from other countries.

In the densely populated, immigrant-heavy communes of Pantin and Bobigny, just outside Paris, we passed a rail yard of sleek, high-speed TGV trains and for several hundred yards rode alongside tracks where Paris Métro trains clattered by.

However, during the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe, a law was passed in 1833 that laid the foundations of modern primary instruction, obliging the communes to maintain schools and pay the teachers.

The twin towns of Charleville and Mézières (formerly Maceriae, meaning "ramparts") were united into a single administrative unit in 1966, together with the communes of Mohan, Étion, and Montcy-Saint-Pierre. Mézières first belonged to the archbishops of Reims and then passed to the counts of Rethel in the 10th century.

As a dependency of the house of Canossa and later as a free commune, it was the scene of violent conflicts between the Guelf and Ghibelline (papal and imperial) factions until it passed to the house of Este in 1288; it became a duchy in 1452 and the Este capital after their loss of Ferrara in 1598.

Most recently, a law was passed that for the first time enshrines private property rights—a huge ideological leap for a party with its origins a long march back in Mao's communes.